Are Canadians actually cold weather Americans?

[paxamericana]

What the hell is a Canadian anyways?

Edited May 12 by paxamericana

[Legato]

2 hours ago, paxamericana said:

What the hell is a Canadian anyways?

eh?

[John Johnston]

Canadians don't hate everybody. Canadians live and let live. That is the biggest difference. 

Something All Y'all don't get. Whatever. 

[paxamericana]

4 hours ago, John Johnston said:

Canadians don't hate everybody. Canadians live and let live. That is the biggest difference. 

Something All Y'all don't get. Whatever. 

Claude AI says you’re all a bunch of hungry hungry hypocrites. And if you disagree, quit watching American TV show all winter go do some Canadian thing you call hockey… oh wait.
 

“The Irony
The Toronto urbanite is probably more vocally insistent that Canada is distinct from America, yet lives a life saturated in American media, works in a continental economy, and shops at the same chains. The Albertan may be less ideologically invested in Canadian distinctness, yet their community fabric — church, land, resource work, tight-knit small towns — is in some ways more locally rooted and less cosmopolitan than Toronto.
So the relationship with American identity ends up being almost inverted from what you’d expect: the person loudest about Canadian distinctness is most integrated into a globalized North American lifestyle, while the person most culturally similar to Americans is often least bothered by the comparison.“

Edited May 12 by paxamericana

[John Johnston]

4 minutes ago, paxamericana said:

Claude AI says you’re all a bunch of hungry hungry hypocrites. And if you disagree, quit watching American TV show all winter go do some Canadian thing you call hockey… oh wait.
 

“The Irony
The Toronto urbanite is probably more vocally insistent that Canada is distinct from America, yet lives a life saturated in American media, works in a continental economy, and shops at the same chains. The Albertan may be less ideologically invested in Canadian distinctness, yet their community fabric — church, land, resource work, tight-knit small towns — is in some ways more locally rooted and less cosmopolitan than Toronto.
So the relationship with American identity ends up being almost inverted from what you’d expect: the person loudest about Canadian distinctness is most integrated into a globalized North American lifestyle, while the person most culturally similar to Americans is often least bothered by the comparison.“

America's Democracy is on life support. Ours is not. 

[paxamericana]

15 minutes ago, John Johnston said:

America's Democracy is on life support. Ours is not. 

You mean the democracy that democratically elected orange man, twice!? Oh don’t like it? Guess it’s not a democracy then is how it works? America is a constitutional republic not a mob rule. You do know the silent majority isn’t swayed by the CBC yeah? 

Edited May 12 by paxamericana

[John Johnston]

15 minutes ago, paxamericana said:

You mean the democracy that democratically elected orange man, twice!? Oh don’t like it? Guess it’s not a democracy then is how it works? America is a constitutional republic not a mob rule. You do know the silent majority isn’t swayed by the CBC yeah? 

Nobody said Americans were smart now did they? Now all y'all are suffering from buyers remorse. More importantly, the world suffers. That is on us for being so dumb as to think and believe all the crap they have telling us for the last 80 years. Now there will definitely be a change in our thinking. 

https://protectdemocracy.org/work/retaliatory-action-tracker/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeting_of_political_opponents_and_civil_society_under_the_second_Trump_administration

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/when_dissent_becomes_a_crime_the_war_on_political_speech_begins

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-5327518/donald-trump-100-days-retribution-threats

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-retribution-tracker/

And the list is endless. 

[August1991]

We have homeless people in Montreal on streets, in tents in July.

Tents, very few in January. None on streets.